Benedetto Lanza

Benedetto Lanza (May 24, 1924, Florence – March 10, 2016, Florence) was an Italian herpetologist and chiropterologist. He published over 500 works, with the first one being published in 1946. He described 68 new taxa.[1] He was Professor of Biology and Director of the Natural History Museum at the Università degli Studi di Firenze.[2]

Eponyms

Lanza is commemorated in the scientific names of a species and a subspecies of reptiles: Chalcides lanzai and Latastia longicaudata lanzai.[2]

References
  1. "Benedetto Lanza - Museo di Storia Naturale - Università di Firenze". Università di Firenze. Archived from the original on May 15, 2016.
  2. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Lanza", p. 151).


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